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Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film
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The article was published on 1980-05-31 and is currently open access. It has received 1885 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Narrative structure & Narrative criticism.read more
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Actions, Events, Scenes, Plots, and the Drama. Language and the Constitution of Part-Whole Relationships.
TL;DR: The authors argued that events, actions, scenes, actions and actors owe their existence to the role they occupy in higher order relationships which are best understood as plot formation in the context of human drama.
Terrorists, Zombies, and Robots: The Political Unconscious, Thematics, and Affectual Structures of the Post-9/11 American Fear Narrative
TL;DR: In this paper, Jacobs examined the post-9/11 American fear narrative across media and genre and proposed the concepts of the fear narrative, the primary fear theme, and the secondary fear theme.
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Interactions in Cuckoo's Nest: Elements of a Narrative Speech-Act Analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) analyze the role of speech acts in the development of characters and narrators.
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Life stories and sickness experience: a performance perspective.
TL;DR: Performance relates the form and content of the story to generative social experience as well as to multiple readings and reformulations and gives insight into the constitutive processes through which bodily knowledge is produced and shared in relation to notions of person and self.
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The narrative structure of risk accounts
TL;DR: The authors considered risk warning signs as the "stand behind the yellow line" paradigmatic of risk accounts and approached these signs in the light of narrative theory, more specifically structural and post-structural narratology.